oVirt 4.4.3 is now generally available

The oVirt project is excited to announce the general availability of oVirt 4.4.3 , as of November 10th, 2020.

This release unleashes an altogether more powerful and flexible open source virtualization solution that encompasses hundreds of individual changes and a wide range of enhancements across the engine, storage, network, user interface, and analytics, as compared to oVirt 4.3.

Important notes before you install / upgrade

Please note that oVirt 4.4 only supports clusters and data centers with compatibility version 4.2 and above. If clusters or data centers are running with an older compatibility version, you need to upgrade them to at least 4.2 (4.3 is recommended).

Please note that in RHEL 8 / CentOS 8 several devices that worked on EL7 are no longer supported.

For example, the megaraid_sas driver is removed. If you use Enterprise Linux 8 hosts you can try to provide the necessary drivers for the deprecated hardware using the DUD method (See the users’ mailing list thread on this at https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/users@ovirt.org/thread/NDSVUZSESOXEFJNPHOXUH4HOOWRIRSB4/ )

Documentation

• If you want to try oVirt as quickly as possible, follow the instructions on the Download page.

• For complete installation, administration, and usage instructions, see the oVirt Documentation.

• For upgrading from a previous version, see the oVirt Upgrade Guide.

• For a general overview of oVirt, see About oVirt.

What’s new in oVirt 4.4.3 Release?

This update is the third in a series of stabilization updates to the 4.4 series.

This release is available now on x86_64 architecture for:

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 / 8.3

• CentOS Linux (or similar) 8.2

• CentOS Stream (tech preview)

This release supports Hypervisor Hosts on x86_64 and ppc64le architectures for:

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 / 8.3

• CentOS Linux (or similar) 8.2

• CentOS Stream (tech preview)

Please note that this release introduces cluster compatibility level 4.5 which is supported only with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3 or equivalent.

oVirt Node and Appliance have been updated, including:

• oVirt 4.4.3: https://www.ovirt.org/release/4.4.3/

• Ansible 2.9.15: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/stable-2.9/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.9.rst#v2-9-15 

• Glusterfs 7.8: https://docs.gluster.org/en/latest/release-notes/7.8/ 

See the release notes [1] for installation instructions and a list of new features and bugs fixed.

Notes:

• oVirt Appliance is already available for CentOS Linux 8

• oVirt Node NG will be available soon for CentOS Linux 8

Additional resources:

• Read more about the oVirt 4.4.3 release highlights: https://www.ovirt.org/release/4.4.3/ 

• Get more oVirt project updates on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ovirt

• Check out the latest project news on the oVirt blog: http://www.ovirt.org/blog/

[1] https://www.ovirt.org/release/4.4.3/ 

[2] https://resources.ovirt.org/pub/ovirt-4.4/iso/